Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, palak paneer. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Palak Paneer is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Palak Paneer is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Palak paneer is the authentic Indian dish made with only spinach puree, where saag paneer is made with a mixture of various greens. Saag paneer seems to have been popularized outside of India, however it is still very uncommon in India. In the Punjabi or Hindi language the word 'saag' means greens.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook palak paneer using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Palak Paneer:
- Get 2 bunches spinach
- Prepare 8-10 paneer cubes
- Get 1 black cardamom
- Prepare 4-5 cloves
- Make ready 4-5 pepper corns
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Take 1 ” cinnamon stick
- Get 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Take to taste Salt
- Take 2 green chillies
- Make ready to taste Red chilli powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- Take 1/4 tsp garam masala
- Take 1 tomato
- Make ready 1 tbsp ghee or mustard oil
Palak Paneer is a quintessential North Indian vegetarian dish made with cottage cheese and fresh spinach. Just the sight of white cubes of paneer peeping through the emerald green spinach puree will make your mouth water. Palak Paneer is one of the most popular paneer dishes. Paneer (Indian cottage cheese) is cooked with spinach and spices in this creamy and flavorful curry.
Instructions to make Palak Paneer:
- Clean soft spinach leaves. Leaves shouldn’t be chopped small. - In this particular recipe, spinach leaves are kept little big and final sabzi is with gravy as it's eaten with rice.
- Take a wok - Add ghee - Add cumin seeds - When they crackle add all whole spices and stir till fragrant.
- Now add turmeric powder, red chilli powder and coriander powder - Add chopped tomatoes - Let them be mushy a bit - Add chopped spinach leaves and cover so that they get cooked and be tender.
- Add little water too to make the gravy. - Once spinach is cooked well add paneer cubes and cook again so that everything gets incorporated well.
- Sprinkle garam masala when it's done and serve with steamed rice
It pairs well with naan, paratha or jeera rice. When we were kids, the only way my brothers would eat spinach was if it was cooked with paneer in palak paneer. Mix in the paneer to coat it. Heat the oil in a frying pan and cook the paneer for a few minutes until crisp and golden on all sides. Palak paneer is a popular dish from North India (Punjab).
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